Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Web unified HOME folder and email

Back in 2005 I had a great idea, only found time this evening to write about it due to the snow in UK :)

Essentially we have two folder hierarchies, HOME folder, and email Inbox etc when we only need one!

So currently I have in my HOME folder I have:
Documents
Music
Videos
Photos
Public
Deleted
Tosort

In my Email I have:
Inbox
Drafts
Sent
Deleted
Documents


Take the example of me quoting for some work. On a spreadsheet I calculate my costs, my fees and I email my total quote to client as my tender. Now in a conventional system I could not store that spreadsheet with the email. I need to keep two different directory structures.

So I'd like my email client to operate on the HOME folder, I even have "Tosort" which is basically an "Inbox" and of cause Deleted.

So this means we have:
Inbox
Drafts
Sent
Documents
Photos
Videos
Public
Deleted

This allows more flexibility, I can even save a document and photo in the same folder which contains my email about the same topic for future reference.

For true flexibility this unified HOME directory would be hosted on a server, so I can access from any of my netbooks, and weblogins.

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